Beards of Time

“Plantscapes” from Kerner von Marilaun’s Pflanzenleben (1887)

Flowers of the Sky

The Art of Swimming (1587)

Nature Through Microscope and Camera (1909)

Highlights from Folger Shakespeare Library’s Release of almost 80,000 Images

Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)

High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910)

Japanese Prints of Western Inventors, Artists and Scholars (1873)

Flemish Mask Designs in the Grotesque Style (1555)

Palacio’s Plan for Colossal Monument to Columbus (1890)

The Prophecy of the Popes (15th Century)

The Physiognomy of Hands (1917)

Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000

An Alphabet of Organic Type (ca. 1650)

Punishment in the Afterlife: an Eastern Turki Manuscript

Life and Death Contrasted (ca. 1770)

Tractatus de Herbis (ca.1440)

Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: A Remembrance (1922)

Highlights from the 20,000+ maps made freely available online by New York Public Library

The 25 Stages from Courtship to Marriage

The Tibetan Book of Proportions

Portraits of Patients from Surrey County Asylum (ca.1855)

The Little Book of Love